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general
  • source: virt-viewer (main)
  • version: 11.0-3
  • maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: Pino Toscano [DMD] – Guido Günther [DMD]
  • arch: any
  • std-ver: 4.6.2
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 7.0-2
  • oldstable: 7.0-2
  • stable: 11.0-2
  • testing: 11.0-3
  • unstable: 11.0-3
versioned links
  • 7.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 11.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 11.0-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • virt-viewer (11 bugs: 0, 10, 1, 0)
action needed
1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-05-14 11:31
Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal
A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!
Created: 2024-12-14 Last update: 2025-05-14 08:33
5 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal
vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:
commit b67a2cf8c2eaa13e9c1526595063970e2d53dd35
Author: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 10 17:04:13 2024 +0100

    Enable libvirt support on all the architectures
    
    libvirt now builds almost everywhere; the only exception is ia64, which
    not actively maintained anymore.

commit 8b086f8822f206b359750d40c3ec37c1ec40e945
Author: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 20 06:15:40 2023 +0200

    d/copyright: switch to copyright-format v1.0, and update

commit 0f446f9793aec2df88ea1ba51b1f2c83723d47d8
Author: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 20 05:58:48 2023 +0200

    d/upstream/metadata: new file with basic upstream information

commit a23485707b8005b5e97f5d908ab87176c9006aee
Author: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 20 05:54:28 2023 +0200

    d/rules: simplify disabling spice on non-Linux archs
    
    sparc64 has spice-gtk as well, so use a simpler way to disable the spice
    support on non-Linux architectures.

commit 2aa3aa2147a621e84b9a452219e9770abd255a44
Author: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 20 05:50:47 2023 +0200

    d/control: drop the libffi-dev build dependency, no more needed.
    
    It used to be required for the mozilla plugin, which is long gone.
Created: 2023-09-20 Last update: 2025-05-10 11:34
lintian reports 1 warning normal
Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2024-10-05 Last update: 2024-10-05 18:34
AppStream hints: 2 warnings for virt-viewer normal
AppStream found metadata issues for packages:
  • virt-viewer: 2 warnings
You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.
Created: 2018-06-04 Last update: 2023-09-02 21:32
debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 2 debian patches available in version 11.0-3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

  • 1 patch where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.
Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2023-09-02 21:45
Build log checks report 1 warning low
Build log checks report 1 warning
Created: 2022-08-03 Last update: 2022-08-03 15:12
Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.2).
Created: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:25
testing migrations
  • This package will soon be part of the auto-libxml2 transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
news
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  • [2023-09-07] virt-viewer 11.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-09-02] Accepted virt-viewer 11.0-3 (source) into unstable (Pino Toscano)
  • [2022-08-08] virt-viewer 11.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-08-02] Accepted virt-viewer 11.0-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2022-07-22] virt-viewer 11.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-07-16] Accepted virt-viewer 11.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2020-05-12] Accepted virt-viewer 9.0-1 (source) into experimental (Guido Günther)
  • [2019-04-10] virt-viewer 7.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-04-05] Accepted virt-viewer 8.0-1 (source) into experimental (Guido Günther)
  • [2019-04-05] Accepted virt-viewer 7.0-2 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2018-09-13] virt-viewer 7.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2018-09-07] Accepted virt-viewer 7.0-1 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2017-09-20] virt-viewer 6.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2017-09-14] Accepted virt-viewer 6.0-2 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2017-08-30] virt-viewer 6.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2017-08-24] Accepted virt-viewer 6.0-1 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2017-08-14] virt-viewer 5.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2017-08-08] virt-viewer REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2016-12-18] virt-viewer 5.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2016-12-07] Accepted virt-viewer 5.0-1 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2016-09-15] virt-viewer 4.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2016-09-09] Accepted virt-viewer 4.0-1 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2016-04-30] virt-viewer 3.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2016-04-25] Accepted virt-viewer 3.1-1 (source) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2014-10-25] virt-viewer 1.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
  • [2014-10-14] Accepted virt-viewer 1.0-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Guido Günther)
  • [2014-05-07] virt-viewer 0.6.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2014-05-01] Accepted virt-viewer 0.6.0-1 (source amd64) (Laurent Léonard)
  • [2013-12-04] virt-viewer 0.5.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2013-06-25] Accepted virt-viewer 0.5.6-2 (source i386) (Guido Günther)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 12
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 11
  • M&W: 1
  • F&P: 0
  • patch: 1
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